National Products Limited

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Bruce Woodward

William G Miller

James Hall

Daniel W Martin

Richard Mazzoli

A kitchen cabinet is provided with a removable tambour door. The kitchen cabinet is provided with a bottom wall having an open slot extending along a front portion of the bottom wall in alignment with inverted U-configured tambour door tracks wherein a tambour door is removable through the slot. A closure member is provided for the slot when the tambour door is in place.

Cabinet with removable tambour door

A tambour door includes a plurality of elongated elements having front and back surfaces of rectangular transverse cross-section placed in abutting side-by-side relationship including a flexible backing material overlaying and adhesively secured to the back surfaces of the elongated elements. The elongated elements are cut from a single panel formed of a wood composition board core having a thin veneer sheet attached to at least one face. The front surface of the elongated elements are formed with a design which extends over a plurality of adjacent elements. The design is pressed into the door, stretching and compressing the veneer rather than tearing it. The design depth can be approximately 11/2 times the veneer thickness. A cabinet including such tambour doors includes side pockets in which the doors move on tracks when the doors are moved to the open position. When the doors are in the closed position, they are planar and extend across the opening into the cabinet. When the door is in the closed position, the interface between adjacent elements is virtually invisible because the abutting relationship of the elements and because of their rectangular cross-sectional shape.

Tambour door of wood composition boards and veneers having pressed

A tambour door includes a plurality of elongated elements having front and back surfaces of rectangular transverse cross-section placed in abutting side-by-side relationship including a flexible backing material overlaying and adhesively secured to the back surfaces of the elongated elements. The front surface of the elongated elements are formed with a design which extends over a plurality of adjacent elements. A cabinet including such tambour doors includes side pockets in which the doors move on tracks when the doors are moved to the open position. When the doors are in the closed position, they are planar and extend across the opening into the cabinet. When the door is in the closed position, the interface between adjacent elements if virtually invisible because of the abutting relationship of the elements and because of their rectangular cross-sectional shape.

Tambour door and method of making

A tambour door includes a plurality of elongated elements having front and back surfaces of rectangular transverse cross-section placed in abutting side-by-side relationship including a flexible backing material overlaying and adhesively secured to the back surfaces of the elongated elements. The front surface of the elongated elements are formed with a design which extends over a plurality of adjacent elements. A cabinet including such tambour doors includes side pockets in which the doors move on tracks when the doors are moved to the open position. When the doors are in the closed position, they are planar and extend across the opening into the cabinet. When the door is in the closed position, the interface between adjacent elements is virtually invisible because of the abutting relationship of the elements and because of their rectangular cross-sectional shape.

A sound absorbing panel structure is formed of a panel of sound absorbing material, such as a felt mat or fiberglass mat, and spaced apart, parallel strips of a decorative non-sound absorbing material attached to one side surface of the sound absorbing panel so that the sound absorbing panel is exposed in the area between the adjacent strips of decorative material.

Sound absorbing structure

The instant invention involves a sound absorbing structure which is formed from at least two adjacent panels which are assembled so as to provide a narrow slot of between about 1/16 and 3/4 inch between the panels. The slot opens into a resonance cavity formed by the panels, their support strips, and a bottom member. The resulting sound absorbing structure provides substantial sound absorption at frequencies of less than about 1000 Hz.

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Bruce Woodward